71-502: The Jacob's Awards were instituted in December 1962 as the first Irish television awards. Later, they were expanded to include radio. The awards were named after their sponsor, W. & R. Jacob & Co. Ltd. , a biscuit manufacturer, and recipients were selected by Ireland 's national newspaper television and radio critics. Jacob's Award winners were chosen annually until 1993, when the final awards presentation took place. Winners of
142-459: A Jacob's Award include Fionnula Flanagan (1965), Gay Byrne (1979), and Brendan Gleeson (1992). The record for the most awards won is held by Gay Byrne, who was honoured six times between 1963 and 1981. Telefís Éireann was launched as Ireland's first indigenous television station on 31 December 1961. Three months later, it was announced by W. & R. Jacob & Co. Ltd. that they intended to sponsor an award for outstanding contributions to
213-586: A campaign by The Irish Times against Ahern, and accused the Sunday Independent of having its own political agenda. Harris left the studio mid-debate. Ahern nominated Harris to Seanad Éireann on 3 August 2007, where he served until April 2011. On the RTÉ Radio 1 programme News at One on 3 December 2007, Harris strongly defended Bertie Ahern, saying that the Irish Daily Mail
284-575: A country I no longer understand." McAleese won, and Harris later expressed regret for his sentiments and praised her presidency. Harris in the mid-2000s began endorsing the centrist, populist Fianna Fáil, which was in a coalition government with the Progressive Democrats . Harris was one of a minority of journalists to support Bertie Ahern during the " Bertiegate I" crisis, during which questions were raised over Ahern's financial propriety. Harris heavily supported Ahern and Fianna Fáil in
355-515: A fake Twitter account, under the name "Barbara J. Pym". The account had been set up in February 2020. The editor, Alan English, described his position as "untenable", saying that "Regardless of where they stand on any issue, we expect our writers to put their views across in a transparent manner. Readers can agree or disagree with these opinions. We will not, however, tolerate hidden agendas." Irish Examiner journalist Aoife Moore stated that
426-752: A favour by being so forthright. For my money, his analysis of Middle East politics is a first cousin to believing that aliens take away people in flying saucers." Harris gave media training to Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi in advance of the invasion of Iraq, and wrote in the Irish Independent that: I first met Chalabi in Washington in March 2001, in the company of Richard Perle, a few months after George W Bush had been elected, and met later in London where I gave him some media training. We bonded from
497-612: A gúna ("Úna without her dress" in Irish ) was deemed sexist and demeaning to a victim of alleged improper conduct. Harris, along with fellow Sunday Independent columnist Eamon Dunphy , became an outspoken critic of Social Democratic and Labour Party leader John Hume over Hume's decision to hold talks with Sinn Féin prior to an IRA ceasefire. Harris urged the Irish government, at the time led by his friend John Bruton, to end all support for Hume's peace efforts. He wrote, "If we persist with
568-467: A matter of much controversy. Robinson and her campaign team blamed him for a near-fatal change in tactics: having previously been non-combative in dealing with the controversies that had engulfed the recently dismissed Tánaiste Brian Lenihan , Harris pressured Robinson into going on the offensive on a live debate on the current affairs programme Today Tonight . This action was generally seen to have backfired horribly. Harris made three election videos for
639-454: A maximum of thirteen in order to incorporate radio. A separate panel of national newspaper radio critics was formed to choose recipients of the new award, a highly polished, white metal cylinder designed by Robert Costelloe. This was replaced in 1981 by a trophy comprising a painted canvas mounted on a stainless steel background, designed by Theo McNab . For most of their history, Jacob's Awards were awarded to programmes broadcast on RTÉ because
710-454: A member of Official Sinn Féin) and Marian Finucane to RTÉ in the 1970s. The Labour Party and the Workers' Party jointly nominated former senator Mary Robinson to be their candidate for President of Ireland at the 1990 presidential election . While Harris's strategy proposal is thought, by some, to have been significant in the rebranding of Robinson, just how influential he was, remains
781-561: A series of adverts for chocolate biscuits featuring Frank Kelly , Maureen Potter featured in a advert for them at the same time. The professor and the South Americans disagree over the pronunciation of ‘Jacob’s. In the mid 1980's for Telax bar a space science advert was used. In the late 1980's and early 1990's "Take The Biscuit" popular series of adverts, Chocolate Collection 1992 song called "It's The Same Chocolate With A Different Biscuit Under It", When Camelot biscuits existed in
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#1732790298799852-407: A statement issued on the day of the awards ceremony, Harris criticised RTÉ for its involvement with commercial sponsorship. However, five years later his attitude changed and he accepted a second award for a special report on 7 Days . Also in 1970, guests arriving at the awards ceremony were confronted by a picket of 50 female employees of W. & R. Jacob who were protesting against the cost of
923-461: A £10 million investment from United Biscuits to further boost output. The activist and trade union organiser Rosie Hackett worked for some years as a messenger for Jacob's. At that time the working conditions in the factory were poor. On 22 August 1911 Hackett helped organise the withdrawal of women's labour in Jacob's factory to support their male colleagues who were already on strike . With
994-665: Is an Irish brand name for several lines of biscuits and crackers in Ireland and the United Kingdom . The brand name is owned by the Jacob Fruitfield Food Group , part of Valeo Foods , which produces snacks for the Irish market. The brand name is used under licence by United Biscuits , part of Pladis and by Mondelez International in Asia (which acquired Groupe Danone's biscuit division and with it,
1065-504: Is an atheist. Harris has had prostate cancer . Writing in the 3 May 2020 edition of the Sunday Independent , Harris stated that his cancer had returned. Harris had written his previous column from an emergency department in a Dublin hospital. Sworn enemies wished him well, with Fergus Finlay writing in the Irish Examiner : "Eoghan Harris’s self-aggrandisement might drive me nuts at times, but contrary as he is, his would be
1136-556: Is the Prix Futura, awarded at the Berlin Television Festival. He has since corrected the mistake. Harris has written in the Sunday Independent about Misplaced Pages , an online encyclopedia . He is a judge on the Irish language talent show Glas Vegas , on TG4 . On 6 May 2021 it was announced that his contract with the Sunday Independent had been terminated: this action was taken after he admitted using
1207-659: The Sunday Independent newspaper. In the 1990s, he left the Workers' Party and was a short-lived adviser to Fine Gael leader John Bruton , before Bruton became Taoiseach ; then an adviser to the Ulster Unionist Party . In the 2000s he supported the Fianna Fáil –led government of Bertie Ahern . Ahern nominated him to Seanad Éireann in 2007, where he served until 2011. He also continued producing some documentary programmes for RTÉ. Harris
1278-523: The 2007 general election . Some alleged that the Sunday Independent's editorial stance prior to the election amounted to a U-turn from previous criticism of the government, but Harris explicitly denied there had been any U-turn or that the attitude of journalists at the paper was influenced by an alleged meeting between the deputy leader of Fianna Fáil, Brian Cowen and the owner of Independent News & Media , Tony O'Reilly . Shortly before
1349-643: The Croke Park Agreement , arguing that the levels of pay it guarantees to public sector workers are "choking social solidarity". Harris continued to supply programme material to RTÉ through Praxis Pictures Ltd., the independent film company he runs with Gerry Gregg, formerly an RTÉ and Workers' Party associate. In 2012 RTÉ upheld a complaint against a Praxis documentary, An Tost Fada (The Long Silence) , written and narrated by Harris, and produced and directed by Gregg. The programme subject matter concerned Harris's controversial belief that some actions in
1420-685: The Easter Rising of 1916. Jacob's first English factory was opened in 1914 in Aintree , Liverpool , and remains the primary producer of Jacob's products in the UK, including Cream Crackers and Twiglets. In 1922, a separate English company was formed, W. & R. Jacob (L'pool) Ltd. The two branches separated, with the Dublin branch retaining the W. & R. Jacob name while the Liverpool branch
1491-792: The Irish War of Independence were sectarian, and involved the IRA targeting Protestants. Previously, in 2007, Harris participated in an equally controversial programme, Guns and Neighbours: The Killings at Coolacrease (Reel Story Productions), in which it was alleged that two Protestant farmers in County Offaly , killed by the IRA in June 1920, were killed for sectarian reasons. It was reported in The Sunday Times (Irish edition) that Harris
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#17327902987991562-630: The Marxist-Leninist Workers' Party (previously Official Sinn Féin). Harris was a fierce critic of Provisional Sinn Féin , from which they had split, and became an opponent of Irish republicanism . For much of the Troubles , from the 1970s until the 1990s, Harris worked in Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and was influential in shaping the current affairs output of Ireland's national broadcaster. Later he began writing for
1633-601: The Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for their efforts. Harris became an advisor in the late 1990s to Trimble, the then leader of the Ulster Unionist Party . He wrote some of Trimble's speeches, one of which included the line that Northern Ireland had been "a cold house for Catholics." He was invited to address the UUP annual conference in 1999, where he described the Belfast Agreement as "an Amazing Grace" and urged
1704-618: The Oireachtas Committee on Communications. Both men stated that they were "uncomfortable" about Harris's appearance on The Late Late Show as it took place so soon before the election. On 26 May 2007 Harris appeared on an election special debate on Today FM 's The Last Word with Matt Cooper . During the debate, Harris said that the decision to support the Government was taken because "we got what we wanted on stamp duty ". Where Fintan O'Toole denied Harris's claims of
1775-782: The Provisional IRA . It was stated in the November 1997 issue of Magill magazine that he set up an RTÉ branch of the Workers' Party called the "Ned Stapleton Cumann ", which gave the party considerable influence in RTÉ. Michael O'Leary , then leader of the Labour Party, commented that RTÉ current affairs coverage was "Stickie orientated", a reference to the Official IRA, from which the Provisional IRA had split in
1846-507: The Sunday Independent' s editorial. This happened after an episode of Questions & Answers , with Gannon implying Harris was a lackey for Tony O'Reilly . Harris reacted angrily to this, dismissed Gannon as a " Shinner " and presenter John Bowman had to step in to separate the two men. Bowman suggested that the men agree to disagree, but Gannon, a 1998 Leinster Minor Hurling Championship medallist and staunch Fine Gael supporter, suggested: "No. Let's agree that you agree with me." Harris
1917-405: The 1970s. Those who supported Harris within RTÉ became known as "the brood of Harris". The tensions within the organisation, between journalists such as Mary McAleese and Alex White on one side and the Workers' Party members on the other, led to major disagreements at the station and to criticism of what was perceived as its anti-republican political agenda. Harris recruited Charlie Bird (then
1988-446: The 1993 event may have been a factor. From the inception of the awards, each of the annual presentation events was organised and promoted by Byrne. According to former Jacob's chairman, Gordon Lambert , she actually started the awards in 1962 and her role in their eventual longevity seems to have been crucial. This is borne out by the fact that no ceremonies took place following Byrne's death in December 1993. Recalling her involvement in
2059-548: The French company Groupe Danone . In July 2004, Groupe Danone and United Biscuits announced that they had made an agreement for the latter to acquire Jacob's Biscuit Group. However, only days later, Groupe Danone, United Biscuits, and Fruitfield Foods announced that Jacob's Biscuit Group would be split, with United Biscuits acquiring only the UK portion of the Group and Fruitfield Foods acquiring Ireland portion. Fruitfield Foods
2130-599: The Lockout. In 2009, after 156 years of making biscuits in Ireland, Jacob Fruitfield shut its Tallaght plant. 220 jobs were lost while the company retained around 100 staff in a variety of roles. In November 2022, workers at the Aintree factory went on strike after pay negotiations with management since September of that year failed to reach an agreement, and the company temporarily shifted production to Portugal. Staff at
2201-635: The Pym account had contributed "sexualised messages about whether Mary Lou McDonald 'turned me on', the size of my arse and called me a terrorist from the month I started at the Examiner . Since then, I've had to go to counselling and the guards ". English described attacks by the Pym account on Aoife Moore as "contemptible". An account associated with Barbara J Pym, 'WhigNorthern', targeted Francine Cunningham, wife of Sunday Independent publisher, Peter Vandermeersch. She observed, "For anyone who hasn’t seen it,
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2272-608: The RTÉ TV Primetime programme on 4 December 2007, Harris further alleged that "the entire [Mahon] Tribunal is a fantasy of [Tom] Gilmartin ". During an interview with Ursula Halligan on the TV3 programme The Political Party broadcast on 9 December 2007, Harris threatened to walk out because he did not wish to further discuss Bertie Ahern's appearances at the Mahon Tribunal. He then changed his mind and asked that
2343-537: The Robinson campaign, and claims to have been responsible for a memorable line from her acceptance speech: "the hand that rocked the cradle rocked the system." Robinson won the election, becoming Ireland's first female President. After the Robinson campaign, Harris was asked to work for Fine Gael by its leader, John Bruton . However, he received criticism from both within and outside the party in April 1991, when he wrote
2414-487: The UUP to make a leap of faith in Sinn Féin. They eventually did so, forming a power-sharing executive, although it was later suspended on the issue of the failure of the IRA to decommission its arms. Harris strongly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq , and is unrepentant about its morality, writing in the Sunday Independent that "hindsight history has no moral status". In May 2003, he wrote "Already, as I predicted in
2485-459: The age of puberty) and paederasty (sex with youths aged 16-18)." Harris pointed out that Ó Searcaigh's sexual preference was common among the great philosophers of Ancient Greece , and that the age of consent in Nepal is 16. He also wrote that Nepal is a notoriously homophobic society and that some of the accusers may have their own agendas. In 2011, Harris voiced strong antagonistic views towards
2556-422: The annual Jacob's Awards event included Hilton Edwards and Frank Hall . Winners were presented with their awards by a senior member of the Irish government , sometimes the taoiseach of the day ( Jack Lynch in 1977, for example). Due to the "economic circumstances of the sponsoring company", the 1983 and 1984 awards were presented at a single event, which took place on 22 February 1985. What turned out to be
2627-517: The awards five years after her death, television critic Tom O'Dea summed up her unique contribution: "I think it is no skin off anyone's nose to accord her the distinction of giving the awards night the character it had, wheelchairs for the irretrievably drunken, and all." The 1970 awards were attended by some controversy. Eoghan Harris refused to accept an award for his production of the Irish-language current affairs programme, Féach . In
2698-400: The banquet. One picketer carried a placard bearing the legend: "Only room at the inn for the in-people". In 1990, RTÉ threatened to pull out of its longstanding practice of broadcasting the awards ceremony because of the involvement of Tánaiste , Brian Lenihan . Lenihan had been invited to present the awards in his capacity as Tánaiste and Minister of Defence . However, in the meantime, he
2769-441: The claim, with most accusing Harris and the Sunday Independent of doing its own U-turn following a Cowen-O'Reilly meeting. The paper had previously been highly critical of Ahern's failure to reform stamp duty, but after the meeting, this criticism stopped. Soon thereafter Fianna Fáil promised to carry such reform if re-elected. In February 2008, Director-General of RTÉ Cathal Goan and RTÉ director of news, Ed Mulhall appeared before
2840-520: The company did not reveal the owner or owners of the Pym account. Larkin was attacked by 'Barbara J. Pym' on 29 March and by an associated 'Dolly White' account, when the Irish Times published his review of Brendan O'Leary's three-volume A Treatise on Northern Ireland . Pym tweeted, "How can the Irish Times justify publishing this Provo sectarian poison? Why was Larkin not asked to tone down
2911-413: The direction proposed earlier by Harris. In 2006, during an RTÉ Television debate Harris stated that the leaders of the Easter Rising were "suicide bombers, I mean suicide terrorists". During the 1970s until the start of the 1990s, Harris was for a time a central figure in shaping the current affairs output of RTÉ . He pushed the organisation towards a perspective heavily critical of Sinn Féin and
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2982-410: The election, Harris appeared on The Late Late Show on RTÉ, in which he praised Ahern and poured scorn on those criticising him over his personal finances. Harris's Late Late Show appearance coincided with a rise in support for the Government. Harris also claimed that other newspapers, namely The Irish Times and The Irish Daily Mail waged an anti-Ahern campaign. All other news outlets dismissed
3053-475: The factory are supported in the ongoing strike by the GMB union. On Irish television popular phrases were "How To Get The Fig Into The Fig Rolls", In circa 1975 An advertisement that starts with a series of people engaged in a variety of activities, while a jingle encourages taking a break with Club Milk as it’s ‘best after all’. In the late 1970's and early 1980's A German professor visits South America to explain in
3124-464: The final awards ceremony took place in Dublin on 11 November 1993. The Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht , Michael D. Higgins , presented the awards on that occasion. No formal announcement was made by the sponsor about the future of the awards so the reason they were terminated is unknown. However, the death of public relations consultant and radio presenter, Frankie Byrne , shortly after
3195-474: The last six Popes." Harris was a leading Irish republican in Sinn Féin in the 1960s, and was an important influence in the party's move from Irish nationalism to Marxism , a political ideology which Harris later said he abhorred. During the 1970 split of the movement into Provisional Sinn Féin and Official Sinn Féin, he was close to leading Official Sinn Féin members Eamonn Smullen and Cathal Goulding ,
3266-409: The late 1980's and early 1990's a Children of Lir cartoon featured Irish history. In 1996 a cake featured Jacob's "The Chocolate Biscuit", "Somekind Of Wonderfull" in the late 2000's. Eoghan Harris Eoghan Harris (born 13 March 1943) is an Irish journalist, columnist, director, and former politician. He has held posts in various and diverse political parties. He was a leading theoretician in
3337-679: The latter of whom was at the time Chief of Staff of the paramilitary Official Irish Republican Army . Alongside Smullen, who had spent many years in British prisons for IRA activities, Harris worked in the Republican Industrial Development Division, an organisation set up in 1972 by Seamus Costello to co-ordinate trade union activities, along with John Caden , Des Geraghty and others. According to Henry Patterson in his book The Politics of Illusion , Harris's pamphlet Irish Industrial Revolution (1975)
3408-505: The lead up to the war, the neoconservative hawks have done much better than the liberals in getting down to the dynamics of opening up the gulf to democracy. Already, and this I predicted too, there is substantial hope for an Israeli–Palestinian settlement now that Saddam no longer scowls at Israel". Commenting in November 2003 about the English journalist Robert Fisk , he wrote: "Far from wanting to pour venom on Fisk, I think he does us
3479-441: The national state broadcaster held a monopoly in Ireland. However, in 1989, commercial radio was introduced, and RTÉ's monopoly in sound broadcasting was broken. The critics responded by widening the scope of the awards to include the new local stations. RTÉ did not face indigenous competition in television until the advent of TV3 in 1998, by which time the Jacob's Awards had ended. In the 30 years of its existence, compères of
3550-615: The new medium. On 4 December 1962, the first awards ceremony took place at the sponsor's headquarters in Dublin . There were nine winners, chosen by a panel of national newspaper television critics. Each winner received an award designed by the artist, Richard Kingston . This consisted of a silver St. Brigid's Cross mounted on a base of bog oak and Connemara marble. The Jacob's Awards honoured teams of programme makers as well as individuals. For instance, in 1962, Telefís Éireann's Sports Department won an award for its general coverage during
3621-470: The peace process it will end with sectarian slaughter in the North, with bombs in Dublin , Cork and Galway , and with the ruthless reign by provisional gangs over the ghettos of Dublin. The only way to avoid this abyss is to cut the cord to John Hume". Hume argued that he was seeking to convince republicans to abandon violence. Harris praised the resulting Good Friday Agreement . Hume and David Trimble won
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#17327902987993692-470: The programme be re-recorded, but Halligan informed him that this was not possible. Harris wrote a column for the Sunday Independent . Harris worked at Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), the Irish national television broadcaster, on current affairs programmes such as 7 Days and Féach . He also made a documentary on mental illness, entitled Darkness Visible . In 2004, an angry RTÉ viewer, Kilmacud Crokes player Hugh Gannon, confronted Harris regarding
3763-601: The rights to Jacob's biscuit brand in Asia). The originator of the Jacob's brand name was the small biscuit bakery, W. & R. Jacob, founded in 1851 in Bridge Street, Waterford , Ireland , by William Beale Jacob and his brother Robert. In 1852, it moved to Bishop Street in Dublin , Ireland, with a factory in Peter's Row. Jacob's Bishop Street premises was one of several prominent Dublin buildings occupied by rebels during
3834-477: The script for a sketch for the Fine Gael Ardfheis in which a cleaner (played by the comedy actress Twink ) interrupted the leader's speech. The sketch was criticised as being in bad taste and tacky, particularly in its references to a controversial incident that had made the news, wherein a female reporter from RTÉ had allegedly been groped by an inebriated Fianna Fáil TD . Its catchphrase Úna gan
3905-466: The social democratic wings of Fine Gael and the Labour Party . The document was initially submitted by Eamonn Smullen on Harris's behalf for publication in the party's theoretical magazine Making Sense , but when this was refused, Harris and Smullen published it themselves as a publication of the party's Economic Affairs Department, of which Smullen was head. When the pamphlet began to circulate it
3976-414: The start, and the basis of the bond was his instinctive feel for Ireland. Chalabi was one of the sources of the false intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction . In 1997, Harris denounced Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Mary McAleese, calling her a " tribal time bomb" and writing "if she wins not on a technicality but because so many people gave her their number one, then I am living in
4047-462: The stated purpose of @WhigNorthern is to track Sinn Fein’s “subversive influence on Irish media.” Over the last year, it first targeted me directly by name: “Francine Cunningham has always been at the extreme end of radical nationalist politics” and claimed I was the ex-wife of someone I have never met who was also deemed to be suspect.” On 15 April 2021 Twitter was threatened with legal action by lawyers acting for journalist and novelist Paul Larkin if
4118-408: The station's first year of broadcasting. In 1965, a limit of eight annual awards was set, and the critics also decided not to confine themselves to fixed categories in making their selections. A special 'Golden Trophy' was introduced in 1966 to recognise exceptional performance. This was awarded every five years, although it was dropped in the mid-1980s. In 1969, the number of awards was increased to
4189-490: The tribal rhetoric?" Larkin's solicitors noted similarities with a 4 April Eoghan Harris column in the Sunday Independent . On 7 May 2021 Twitter announced that a further eight accounts linked to "Barbara J. Pym" had been suspended. Twitter announced that the accounts had breached "policy on platform manipulation and spam". Harris's ex-wife, Anne Harris , was formerly editor of the Sunday Independent . In December 2007, Harris married Gwendoline Halley, from Waterford . He
4260-461: The use of the Jacob's brand name. With the acquisition of Groupe Danone's biscuit division by Kraft Foods in 2007, the production and sales of Jacob's biscuits in Malaysia is undertaken by Mondelez Malaysia. As of 2015, the Aintree factory produced over 55,000 tonnes of products each year, and as of 2022 4,000 tonnes of crackers are produced annually at the factory. In 2015, it received
4331-491: The women's help, the men secured better working conditions and a pay rise. Two weeks later, at the age of eighteen, Hackett co-founded the Irish Women Worker's Union (IWWU) with Delia Larkin . During the 1913 Lockout Hackett helped mobilise the Jacob's workers to come out in solidarity with other workers, they in turn were locked out by their own employers. In 1914 her Jacob's employers sacked her over her role in
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#17327902987994402-548: Was a "lying newspaper", which practised "sensationalist, sick journalism" and which had a "record of fascist appeasement in the 1930s". He also said that the Mahon Tribunal should be shut down because "there is no natural justice available", and that in ten years' time "people will look back and say that the Tribunal time was scoundrel time". The Irish Daily Mail denied his allegations. In a debate with Fintan O'Toole on
4473-502: Was a columnist for the Sunday Independent until 2021. He was sacked after admitting running a fake Twitter account , which harassed journalists he believed were sympathetic to Irish nationalism and Sinn Féin. Harris is also involved in screenwriting work. He lectures at IADT Dún Laoghaire and teaches a screenwriting workshop. Harris was born in Douglas, County Cork , a village on the outskirts of Cork city , on 13 March 1943. He
4544-769: Was at the centre of an internal investigation at the National Film School in Dún Laoghaire , where he lectures. Harris has also incorrectly, albeit accidentally, said he received a Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in his entry in ' Who's Who ' in Ireland, for his documentary Darkness Visible . Harris insisted that he did win the award, saying that the Berlin Film Festival "mustn't keep proper records". The award he actually received
4615-496: Was banned by the Workers' Party, and Smullen was suspended from his position on the committee. Harris resigned in protest and Smullen resigned subsequently, along with many of the members of the Research Section of the party. This was the prelude to a bigger split in 1992 when senior members alleged that the supposedly moribund Official IRA still existed and was implicated in criminality, and sought to move to some extent in
4686-910: Was chosen by Fianna Fáil as that party's candidate in the forthcoming Irish presidential election . RTÉ claimed that going ahead with its planned broadcast would give unfair additional publicity to Lenihan, leaving the station in breach of its own guidelines on election coverage. After a brief stand-off, Lenihan agreed to withdraw from the awards ceremony. He was replaced by Minister for Labour , Bertie Ahern . Television Television Television Television Television Golden Trophy Television Television Radio Television Radio Television Radio Television Golden Trophy Radio Television Radio Television Radio Television Radio Television Radio Television Golden Trophy Radio Television Radio Television Radio Television Radio Television Jacob%27s Jacob's
4757-518: Was educated at Presentation Brothers College , and subsequently at University College Cork (UCC), where he studied English and History. In the Cork Mid by-election in March 1965 he campaigned for Sylvester Cotter, who was standing for Poblacht Chríostúil . At this time Harris met his future wife, UCC student Anne O'Sullivan . The aim of the party was "to base the social and economic policies of our country on Christian social reform, as elaborated by
4828-668: Was featured on the front cover of the August 2007 edition of Village . Inside, Harris was the subject of a number of critical articles written by Vincent Browne . In 2008, Harris defended the Irish-language poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh , who admitted buying gifts for and having sex with 16 to 18-year-old boys while on charitable visits to Nepal . Harris said that while he didn't "necessarily approve of people going to Nepal for sex with young men", Ó Searcaigh's critics had "made no distinction between paedophilia (sex with children below
4899-524: Was influential in shifting the party away from republicanism. Harris continued to do media work for it as it became the Workers' Party . However, in 1990 he published a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Social Democracy in which he surmised that socialism would not survive the Revolutions of 1989 . He called for a shift to social democracy and that the party should seek a historic compromise with
4970-424: Was renamed Jacob's Bakery Ltd. In 1966, W. & R. Jacob in Dublin merged with Boland's Biscuits to form Irish Biscuits Ltd. and moved to a factory in the Dublin suburb of Tallaght in 1973. The Liverpool factory joined Associated Biscuits in 1960, which was purchased by Nabisco in 1982. In 1990, the two companies once again came under common ownership and became Jacob's Biscuit Group when they were acquired by
5041-731: Was subsequently renamed the Jacob Fruitfield Food Group and is now part of the Valeo Food Group. Valeo Foods was established in September 2010 through the merger of Batchelors and Origin Foods. In the meantime, Groupe Danone retained Jacob's brand ownership in Asia with manufacturing facility in Malaysia. Since their acquisitions, United Biscuits and Jacob Fruitfield Food Group have been in a legal dispute over
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